OMT and MOC are pleased to announce their annual Doctoral Student Consortium will once again be part of the pre-conference activities at the Annual Academy of Management Meeting in Anaheim. Continuing the partnership started a few years ago, OMT and MOC co-organize this Doctoral Consortium to help doctoral students organize their thoughts about the final phase of their doctoral programs, advance their research, publish their dissertation or parts thereof, find a job in the academic or professional world, advance their career and generally achieve happiness and enlightenment.
Following on the success of last year's consortium, we will retain previous innovations that allowed for greater degrees of personalization and interaction between faculty and students. In addition to the traditional stand-up presentations by our distinguished group of panelists, who will discuss what it means to conduct "great" research and dispense various pearls of wisdom about all the different ways to successfully manage your career, each session includes roundtable discussions where participants will be able to interact with a distinguished group of faculty in a small-group format to gain and share additional insights. We will also once again conduct our highly popular research roundtables session, where participants will be offered the opportunity to discuss their dissertation research with distinguished scholars in the field.
As a new innovation this year, we and the OMT Junior Faculty Consortium are jointly sponsoring a teaching roundtable session where students and junior faculty members can sit down with distinguished faculty and learn how they have incorporated organization theory and managerial cognition into the undergraduate and MBA elective courses that they teach. Syllabi and other teaching materials will be made available to all interested participants.
As always, Sunday will include our Meet the Editors session, where participants will be able to ask questions, again, in a round table format, of editors from all the top journals.
For the sake of intimacy we will be maintaining a low faculty/participant ratio. Thus, space in the consortium is limited. Maintaining a low ratio ensures that the Doctoral Consortium provides opportunities to accommodate the increasing diversity of participants' backgrounds, experiences, and desires, and creates plenty of opportunities to ask specific questions of our panelists and facilitators.
In addition to conference co-organizers Tim Pollock (Penn State University) and Jenny Rudolph (Harvard Medical School), and their assistant co-organizers Diane Burton (MIT) and Kevin Corley (Arizona State University), the following scholars (listed in alphabetical order) have generously agreed to contribute their time and effort to the development of the OMT-MOC doctoral consortium's participants:
Distinguished Panelists
Steve Borgatti (University of Kentucky)
Glenn Carroll (Stanford University)
Lisa Cohen (London Business School)
Karen Golden-Biddle (Boston University)
Majken Schultz (University of Copenhagen)
Jim Westphal (University of Michigan)
Roundtable Facilitators
Forrest Briscoe (Penn State University)
Amy Edmondson (Harvard University)
Melissa Graebner (University of Texas-Austin)
Mary Jo Hatch (McIntyre School, University of Virginia)
Mike Lounsbury (University of Alberta)
Nelson Phillips (Imperial College, London)
Davide Ravasi (Bocconi University)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The deadline for nominations is May 15, 2008, but before you rush to email us please read on.
The number of participants is limited, and we anticipated more applications than spaces available. You can apply as early as you want, but
no earlier than March 31, and no later than May 15, 2008.
To apply, interested students must be nominated by their schools. No university can nominate more than two students, and each doctoral program is limited to one nomination. Universities with multiple departments seeking to send students need to coordinate their nominations. In making the decision to accept students, preference is given to those who have made the most progress toward completing their Ph.D. program. Since we are anticipating more applicants than spaces, preference will also be given to those who apply early.
The Consortium is not open to those who have already completed their Ph.D., regardless of circumstances. If this is your case, you may want to consider attending OMT's Junior Faculty Consortium instead.
Applications should be sent by the department representative who nominates the student and should include the following in the body of the email: the nominee's name, address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers, name of affiliated school and university, the division (OMT or MOC) being submitted to, and a statement from the department certifying the nominee's completion of doctoral coursework and comprehensive exams by August 1, 2008.
Also attach the following three items to your e-mail: (1) a brief letter from a faculty member providing a general appraisal of the nominee, including an assessment of his/her progress toward a dissertation defense, expected defense date, and subject of dissertation; (2) a one-page bio summarizing the nominee's contact information, research and teaching interests, and publications (this one-page bio will be distributed among consortium participants); and (3) a three to five page summary of the student's research project (typed and double-spaced, 12 point times roman font, one inch margins. No single spacing or micro-fonts please.). This summary should include: research question, rationale, hypotheses / propositions, (proposed) methods (if applicable), and results (if applicable). Once roundtable assignments are made, the Consortium organizers will distribute research summaries to members of each roundtable.
Please send nominations and supporting materials by electronic mail to BOTH conference organizers by May 15, 2008. INDICATE SPECIFICALLY WHICH DIVISION (OMT or MOC) YOU CONSIDER YOUR PRIMARY AFFILIATION. Please note that incomplete applications will be delayed. If you are unsure whether we have received all of your materials, feel free to email either Tim or Jennifer. We are happy to help.
OMT: Tim Pollock tpollock(@psu.edu
MOC: Jenny Rudolph
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Tim Pollock
Associate Professor of Management
Smeal College of Business
The Pennsylvania State University
417 Business Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-0740
Fax: 814-863-7261
E-Mail: tpollock@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/txp14
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